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SILVERTON, Ohio - A father has been arrested for raping his six-month-old son and infecting him with HIV. Police say that Lenny Love, 29, from Silverton, Ohio, knew he had the virus when he raped his son in March. He was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of rape, one count of felonious assault and one count of possession ...

BREAKING NEWS: Casey Anthony escaped the death penalty after she was today cleared of the brutal murder of her two-year-old daughter Caylee. The 25-year-old mother was found not guilty of drugging her young daughter, suffocating her and dumping her body in overgrown woodland after a sensational six-week trial, which has seen a family torn about by accusations of rape and incest. ...

FALL RIVER, PA - SWAT team members in Pennsylvania yesterday killed a career criminal suspected of killing a Fall River toddler and Yarmouth man execution style and critically wounding the boy’s mother and two others — while in Fall River, neighbors mourned the death of the youngest victim, who would have turned 3 this month, and prayed for his mother’s recovery. ...

BANGOR, Maine -- A murder suspect who escaped from a Maine psychiatric hospital by climbing over a fence has been captured in a neighboring city after about 15 hours on the lam. Officers found 29-year-old William Hall walking down a street in Brewer at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, hours after someone fitting his description swam across the Penobscot River. He was about ...

SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) — A father abandoned his 4-year-old son along a West Texas highway, and the injured boy spent several hours alone in the dark before a passing motorist picked him up, police said. Carlos Rico, 22, stopped his car along a cactus-lined stretch of Interstate 20 near Sweetwater at about 3 a.m. Tuesday and "threw the boy out of ...

PACIFIC GROVE, CA - Jacob Scott Miller, the 25-year-old son of Sheriff Scott Miller, was arrested Tuesday on narcotics charges after the sheriff's own drug team served a search warrant in Pacific Grove. Jacob Miller resides in a separate apartment on his father's property. Cmdr. Jerry Teeter said Miller was arrested at the residence on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine for sale ...

SPRINGFIELD — Nine people, ages 12 to 19, are facing hate crime charges in connection with the beating of an openly gay man in Springfield. Sgt. John Delaney said the beating occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday as the 30-year-old victim walked down a Springfield street. Delaney said the victim told police he was then attacked by the suspects who knocked ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A South San Francisco man who authorities say attacked the host of a barbecue with a machete has been charged with attempted murder. Pedro Ramirez Garcia, 32, became enraged Sunday afternoon when the man who threw the party asked him to leave, police said. Garcia swung a machete at the host, who suffered cuts to his hands while ...

WINCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire authorities say a man has been shot and killed by police in the town of Winchester after threatening the officers with a knife. The incident happened shortly after 9 p.m. Monday in an apartment building on Keene Street after four police officers from Winchester and Swanzey responded to a call for a family dispute. According to ...

LOCKPORT, La. (AP) — When a pickup truck crashed in southeastern Louisiana, authorities made a surprising discovery: 10 pipe bombs. Trooper Bryan Zeringue said the one-vehicle rollover crash happened around 7:30 a.m. Monday. As emergency crews were trying to right the truck, they noticed the devices. Zeringue said nine of the bombs were made with plastic pipe and one was made ...

BALTIMORE - A 32-year-old man was bound and shot Monday morning after three assailants kicked in the door to his Northeast Baltimore home, identifying themselves as police officers, officials said. About the same time, officers in Southeast Baltimore were called to a home where a young woman was found fatally stabbed in a bedroom. The incidents are not believed to be ...

MANHATTAN - A Manhattan cop pleaded guilty Monday to lying under oath and concocting evidence in three cases - but says he did it for the right reasons. Sgt. William Eiseman, a 12-year NYPD veteran, admitted to faking a marijuana case against one man and cocaine-related charges against another - and training young cops to falsify paperwork to sidestep legal safeguards. ...

WHITTIER - A Whittier man and his teenage son were behind bars Sunday on suspicion of badly beating another man during a robbery attempt and sicking their pit bull on him, officials said. The victim had the tips of both ears bitten off by the dog in the attack, in addition to other injuries, Whittier police Lt. Carlos Solorza said. Richard ...

DELAWARE, OHIO - An Ohio woman attempted to fight off police trying to remove her from her car by spraying them with her breast milk, authorities said. Stephanie Robinette got into a fight with her husband while attending a wedding at the Bridgewater Banquet & Conference Center in the city of Delaware on Saturday, WBNS 10 News reported. Her husband told ...

MCCLAIN COUNTY, OK - An accused murderer who overpowered guards and escaped from an Oklahoma jail in a stolen police car was back behind bars late on Sunday, authorities said. Shaun Bosse, who was awaiting trial on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson, was recaptured near the town of Blanchard, the McClain County Sheriff's Office said. "He ...

YEADON, Pa. — Police in a Philadelphia suburb say they have found the car involved in a hit-and-run that injured a man in a convenience store parking lot, a crime recorded by surveillance cameras. WPVI-TV reports that a tip led Yeadon (YAY’-den) police to a silver 2007 Dodge Caliber in Philadelphia. Detective Sgt. David Splain says it has damage consistent with ...

MIAMI BEACH - An 11-year-old boy was taken into custody Thursday afternoon by undercover police officers who caught him on camera breaking into a parked car outside a Toys R Us store, North Miami Beach police said. The boy, whose name was not released because he is a minor, was charged with vehicle burglary and taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center, ...

BOULDER, Colo. -- Police in Colorado have arrested a 30-year-old man accused of hiding in the tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival last week. Kim Kobel of Boulder police says Luke Ivan Chrisco was arrested during an unrelated panhandling investigation Thursday. Police say an officer noticed his resemblance to the toilet suspect, and Chrisco was taken into custody ...

MIDDLESEX, MA - A Sergeant with the Middlesex Sheriff's Department who worked at the Cambridge jail was arraigned Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court on one charge of trafficking cocaine, authorities said. Michael Dell'Isola, 51, of Somerville, was ordered held on $1,000 cash bail by First Assistant Clerk Magistrate Matthew Day, according to the office of Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone ...

CHICAGO - A 1-year-old boy seated in the back seat of his mother’s car was taken Thursday morning after a carjacker stole the vehicle, but has since been found safe, police said. The suspect remains at large. The boy’s mother was carjacked at gunpoint around 4:30 a.m. in the 7100 block of South Calumet Avenue, said police News Affairs Officer Laura ...